Happy Father's Day

In celebration of father's day and in honor of my wonderful dad, without whom I would probably be boring and normal, I present you with some of my favorite poems about or involving fathers and fatherdom (don't worry, I left Plath's "Daddy" out of this):

Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams

my father moved through dooms of love by E. E. Cummings

Yesterday by W. S. Merwin

My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke (audio clip)

Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas

(And many thanks to the Academy of American Poets for making such poems available online.)